Synonyms for socrates
ˈsɒk rəˌtizsocrates

Princeton's WordNet

1. Socratesnoun

   ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)

Matched Categories

1. • Athenian
   • Philosopher

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1. List of paraphrases for "socrates":

   sócrates

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1. List of known nicknames for "Sócrates":

   Dr. Sócrates, Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira

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1. Michel de Montaigne:

   There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

2. Francis Quarles:

   Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

3. Dale Carnegie:

   The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use

4. Lydia M. Child:

   Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

5. Unknown:

   Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.